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Buttitta's Folk Opera Diggin' the Ring: The Ring Cycle, Songs of Protest, and the American Left

Smith, Ryan F.

… the Ring, borrowed the narrative structure of the Ring Cycle. Buttitta replaced Wagner's characters with an all-black, mundane cast. Despite forty years of revisions and numerous unsuccessful attempts to produce the opera, Diggin' the Ring remained unknown until it was found in the Buttitta …

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